Reviews: Haydn’s Creation
State of the Art
Haydn’s Creation (Review)
Aryan Mohseni | May 3, 2022
Haydn’s Creation is a spectacular oratorio that is not often performed in Australia.
It is demanding from the perspective of both interpreter and performer. But this is precisely the sort of challenge that the Australian Haydn Ensemble relishes. With the aid of Roland Peelman’s innate musicality, the Ensemble, in conjunction with the 33-member Sydney Chamber Choir directed by Sam Allchurch, gave a performance that will be hard to match.
classikON
A sustained ovation for The Creation
Allan Holley | May 3, 2022
A work for choir, orchestra and three vocal soloists that takes 150 minutes to perform is a work from a distant past. I doubt any large choir or orchestral organisation would commission such a work these days. Too long – audiences have a short attention span. Well this definitely was not the case with a large and spellbound audience at the City Recital Hall who gave the Australian Haydn Ensemble, Sydney Chamber Choir, soloists and conductor a sustained ovation for their performance of the 1798 oratorio by Haydn, The Creation. And it was most deserved applause. A masterful performance of a masterpiece.
Canberra City News
Bravo! The choir and soloists sang their hearts out
Rob Kennedy | April 30, 2022
THUNDEROUS joy best describes Joseph Haydn’s greatest oratorio, The Creation. The music at the opening concert of the 2022 Canberra International Music Festival (CIMF), was a tribute to humanity’s creative vision and the wonders of nature.
Sounds Like Sydney
Concert Review: Haydn’s Creation/Australian Haydn Ensemble
Shamistha de Soysa | May 3, 2022
There’s nothing better than a big party with all your friends to celebrate a birthday and the Australian Haydn Ensemble did just that for its tenth anniversary with a with a resplendent performance of Josef Haydn’s 1798 hero oratorio, The Creation, in collaboration with exceptional vocal soloists, an augmented ensemble of period and replica instruments and the Sydney Chamber Choir, all under the direction of Roland Peelman.
Limelight
The Creation (Sydney Chamber Choir/Australian Haydn Ensemble)
Vincent Plush | April 30, 2022
“This is one of the Canberra International Music Festival’s most ambitious presentations yet,” declared Tara Cheyne, the ACT’s Minister of the Arts. She was echoing the comments of CIMF Chair, Genevieve Jacobs, opening the 2022 festival season built on the concept ‘Pole to Pole’. Jacobs depicted Canberra’s beloved festival apparatus as “this big, warm, sometimes messy family”. Looking over the 70 or so performers crammed onto that small stage of The Fitters’ Workshop in Kingston, we wondered where CIMF might go in future years.
